There's gold and it's haunting and haunting; it's luring me on as of old; Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold; It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder, It's the forest where silence has lease; It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

Am I missing something? Why are people picking average/below average teams?

The point of the league is to pick a team and then guide them through multiple seasons. Kind of like Dynasty Mode/The Association in video games, except this is more centered around their stats and boxscores and stuff. Each week, we simulate a few times (like 3-4), with each sim covering like 15 days or so. Each season has 8 sims, so we usually finish up a season in less than a month.

Then there's drafts, working out players, etc. etc. Pretty much, it's easy to build up a team from scratch in this league, and sometimes that's more fun than winning outright